Senior Privacy Engineer
Role Summary
Join DuckDuckGo as a Senior Privacy Engineer, leading privacy technology projects remotely with a competitive salary and stock options.
About the Organisation
Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work, you've come to the right place!
- Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.
- Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them effectively, involving others when necessary.
- Experience working on privacy solutions in an engineering capacity (e.g. tracker blocker, differential privacy, or similar technology).
- Deep technical understanding of online privacy threats and the existing solution space to protect against them.
- Proficiency in any of the following: Go, Node.js, Python, Perl.
- Excellent communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly to a variety of audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.
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